Tag for jewelers&#39; use.



PATENTED JAN. 8, 1907.

D. GOLDSMITH.

TAG FOR JEWELERS USE.

APIfLIOATIOH FILED MAY 6, 190a.

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i l g 0% I v @ZWL A% been proposed to use tags of metal in substitution for paper or parchment tags and to "UNITED STATES PATENT orrronq DANIEL GOLDSMITH, or NEW YORK, nr, Assionon or ONE-HALF TO CHARLES P. GOLDSMITH AND ONE-HALF TO isAAo LOEB, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

TAG FOR JEWELERS USE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 5,1903. Serial No. 155,716.

' No. 840,487. Patented Jan. 8, 1907.

Referring to Fig. 1, the blank, which is of celluloid, is shown as composed of the two tablet portions A and the strap portion 1). At the ends of the blank and at the points marked C holes may be provided for the insertion of a rivet, or said blank may be slipped through the ring and the hole subsequently punched at the time of attaching it by the rivet. Each tablet portion A may be of-the general form of a shield, as shown, or of similar form to afford a marking-surface which will be approximately the same as the area of phe space within the ring and as indicated at ig. 3. A

D indicates a suitable rivet by which the two tablet portions are united to secure the tag to the ring. Said rivet is applied near the edge of the tablet portion farthest removed from the strap, so as to permit the attached tag to swing freely on the ring to assume the position shown in Fig. 3 when the ring is slipped into the tray. The rivet is a form of connection which obviously affords no projectingpoints or surfaces that can readily catch in the socket in the tray, moreover, by locating the rivet so that it will be near the edge of the ring or immediately beneath the seal or stone wherethe ring is wider it is obvious that it will be further protected against liability to catch in the tray when the ring is withdrawn.

This improved tag possesses a number of advantages over those heretofore employed for the purpose. First, it may readily be inscribed in ink and remain attached to the ring during the cleaning of the same and without liability of effacem ent of the mark or disintegration of the material of the tablet when the ring is washed in the usual-alkaline or acid baths. Again, it affords a good marking-surface and cannot readily become torn or mutilated or lost or become readily soiled. Moreover, it affords a large marking-surface which does not readily catch in the tray and may be quickly and easily attached to the ring by a suitable rivet-press, to be removed only when the ring is finally disposed of.

What I claim as my invention is The herein-described marking-tag for finger-rings comprising the two tablet portions A of celluloid and the connecting strap portion b in combination with the fastening- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tags l for Jewelers Use, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved tag for jewelers use, and adapted more partieul larly for use in connection with rings. l

Tags as usually constructed have heretofore been made of paper or parchment, which becomes disintegrated or destroyed'in the usual cleaning-baths employed for cleaning, rings in stock, so that it is necessary when stock is to be cleaned to remove said tags, with consequent liability to confusion and mistakes in reattaching them. It has also mark the same by impressing the mark into the surface of the metal. 1

My invention consists in an improved construction of tag for finger-rings, the obj ect of which is to avoid the liability of the tag catching in the socket of the tray or holder when the ringis restored thereto and to fur ther provide a large writing-surface on the tag or blank, and all of such construction that when the ring is slipped into the tray the tag will readily place itself in the space within the ring.

To these ends my invention consists of a marking-tag for finger-rings comprising two tablet portions of sufficient size to substantially fill the interior of the ring, a short uniting-strap for said tablet portions, and a rivet or other means for permanently joining said tablet portions together at their edge farthest removed from the strap portlon, all as hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

In the accom anying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a cellu oid tag-blank formed according to my invention. Fig. 2 shows the same attached to and depending from a ring. Fig. 3 shows the ring with the attached tag in the position which it occupies when the ring is in the tray or socket. Fig. 4 is a transverse section, the attached tag being shown in edge view.

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rivet D, uniting the tWO tablet portions at New York and State of New York, this 15th their edge remote from the strap, all'as de- I day of April, A. D. 1903. scribed to permit the tag to swing freely on I r i the ring and to prevent the same from catchi DANIEL GOLDSMI 5 ing in the tray when the ring is restored to Witnesses:

place. J. GALLWITZ, Signed at New York city, in the ceunty of i E. LAWLER. 

